, 1887-03-17
An Attempt Upon the Life Of the
Car.
A Bomb Thrown but Fails to
Explode.
4 SENSATION REFUTED.

ST. PETERSBURG, March 15.-Tho
official Messenger publishes the fol-
lowing statements: "The czar and
family attended requiem service in
memory of Car AlcXandri III, Sunday
afternoon and half hour later started
for Gatschina." The paper makes 10
mention of any unusual incident hav.
ing occurred on that day or since.
PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES.
ST PETERSBURG, March 15.-lt is
semi-oiiicially stated that Sunday the
police were informed that an attempt
might bo made ON the life of the car
that day, it being the anniversary OF the
assassination OF his father. As II re-
suit the police arrested near the Inn
perial Palace several persons discover
ed holding dynamite bombs in their
hands ready to throw at the car AS he
emerged,
THE ATTACK ON THE CHAR.
LONDON, March 15.-A dispatch
from St. Petersburg to the Daily
News says: While the ear was re-
turning from requiem services in the
cathedral OF st. Peter and ST. Paul, II
bomb attached to II cord was thrown
i'm his direction. The intention was
tO tighten the string which was con-
nected with the mechanism and then
explode the bomb but before it could
he executed the criminal and sus-
pected accomplice was seized. 1t was
found they lived together in II lodging
house in the suburbs OF the city. The
police visited this house and discovered
there quantity of explosives and II
number of revolutionary pamphlets.
over 200 persons have already been
arrested in connection with the affair
The German police had warned the
Russian authorities that an attempt
+ was to be made against the cars life,
but the latter failed to trace the plot
ters. A telegram from Vienna con-
.rmed the News dispatch and says
that the bomb was thrown under the
cars carriage and that it was shaped
like book so it could be carried i'll
the hand without exciting suspicion.
THERE WAS A PLOT.
LONDON, March 15.-Thc Russian
Embassy in London has received dis
patches confirming the report OF the
discovery of plot to assassinate the
ear and the arrest OF the ring-leaders.
These dispatches say that no actual
attempt was made to kill the czar. as
the plot had been discovered before he
left the palace. The British govern
ment has received dispatches to the
same effect from Sir Il. ID. Morier,
British ambassador ut st. Petersburg.
REFUSES TO SAY.
LONDON, March lJ.-Thc Russian
embassy here refuses to-day to give
any information respecting the truth
ur falsity of the report that an attempt
on the cars life was made last Sun
day in st. Petersburg.
MORE PARTICULARS.
LONDON, March ia dispatch
from st. Petersburg to the Standard
says that one of the six students ar
rested in connection with the plot
carried n hollow book containing II
bottle filled with dynamite and pois-
oned bullets. Others had parcels and
bags containing bombs. The dispatch
also says it is alleged that II woman
was arrested who had Il bomb con-
cealed in her muff.
BOMB THROWING.
PARIS, March 15.-The Intransigart,
Henri Rochefort's paper, states that
several persons have been arrested IN
ST. Petersburg on charge Of engaging
in conspiracy against the life OF the
czar last Sunday. The car was pass
ing along the thoroughfare on his way
to attend services in commemoration
OF the death of his father, when a
bomb was thrown at him, but for some
reason failed to explode, and the per-
sons arrested were concerned in the
assassination plot.
Northern Pacific Il. II. Notes.
NEW York, March l5.-At meet